The most important legal news in local newspapers
We in Ben Arafa Law Group Consulting & Legal Legitimacy L.L.C likes to provide you of the most important legal news in the local newspapers for this week, which related to your business and commercial, labor and procedural activities, and accordingly we provide you with the most important news as follows:
Comprehensive Regulatory Guidelines for Civil Works of Infrastructure: Efforts of the Ministry of Municipality and Housing to Improve Urban Scene
Ministry of Municipality and Housing issued the comprehensive regulatory guidelines for the civil works of infrastructure, with the aim of treating the challenges that influence the urban scene, upgrading the quality of infrastructure services in the cities of the KSA, while limiting the scenery deformity and reinforcing the competence of projects.
The guidelines are concerned with the following:
Operational and technical procedures: Providing services through the unified website “Nasaq”
Work mechanisms: including governance of procedures, defining the responsibilities of partners, and creating control systems to upgrade the performance quality.
Digging procedures: point out the steps including planning, issuing permits to quality follow up and final closing.
Standards and conditions: including international standards to ensure quality of performance.
The guidelines aim at providing the minimum limit of requirements of carrying out high quality projects of digging and the infrastructure. The work scope and exceptions include all cities of the KSA in the exception of Riyadh, as it is managed by Infrastructure Projects Center, which is established by the ministerial decree number 902.
The guidelines regulate the infrastructure through:
Relieving the operational and technical challenges.
Improving the quality of projects according to the best practices.
Reinforcing the competence of coordination between governmental and private authorities.
Conditions of licensing means of transport leasing offices
1- Civil defense approval before the license
Ministry of municipality and Housing affirms the necessity of having the civil defense approval as a main condition for issuing the licenses of means of transport leasing offices. That procedure is one of the new conditions that aim at regulating establishing and developing the offices to achieve the community and the investors objectives, and contribute in treating the traffic challenges and scenery deformities.
2- Basic requirements of licensing:
License procedures: They are applied according to the municipality licensing procedures and its executive regulations.
Commercial record: Filing a valid commercial record that points out the required activity for license.
Approvals: Having the approval of the authority that supervises the commercial activity.
3- Additional and Harmonized activities:
Additional activities shall be practices, in a condition that they don’t exceed 50% of the total licensed area.
Minimum area for practicing additional activity is 6m2, with the exception of the self-service areas.
Harmonized activities shall be practiced in the licensed areas.
Architectural requirements for shelter centers
Basic components: a reception, waiting rooms, equipment stores, at and least one bathroom. Design of exits and entrances: the entrance or exit width shouldn’t be less than 3.5m. In a case of shared entrance or exit, its width shouldn’t be less than 6 m, while the traffic should be organized. Fences and canopies: height of fences shouldn’t be less than 2.5m and should be plain at the housing front. The Saudi Code should be applied at canopies installation. Maintenance and washing places: allocated area shouldn’t be more than 30m2 or 10% of the total site area, considering not to install them at the façade.
5- Environmental and Health Conditions:
Providing isolation systems to relive noise levels according to the executive regulations of noise.
Compliance with providing containers for collecting oils and damages spare parts.
Preventing liquids penetration outside the site, and applying the requirements of the Saudi Code of sanitary sewerage.
Constructing manholes inside the property boundaries.
6- Wastes and Stores management:
Allocating a store which isn’t less than 10m2 to store the spare parts and equipment.
Systematic disposal of wastes
Those conditions ensures the ministry concern with regulating the work of transportation leasing offices to balance between the community demands, to reinforce the environmental compliance, and to encourage sustainable investment in that sector.
Licensing for providing digital authentication services
Digital governmental authority grants 15 companies the license for providing digital authentication services with the aim of providing creative solutions for digital authentication and reinforcing the use of those services at governmental and private sectors.
License Objectives:
Reinforcing confidence and safety of digital treatments.
Reinforcing investment environment through improving authenticated signatures and electronic treatments.
Providing multiple options for the beneficiaries of multiple sectors.
Digital authentication services are electronic services that aim at:
Verifying the electronic treatments authenticity
Verifying the identity of users
The services include:
Issuing digital certificates
Electronic signature
Electronic and time stamp
Equipment management
Service providers sorting:
First category: comprehensive service providers: they are qualified to provide digital authentication services
Second category: Defined service providers: They provide one service or more, in the exception of issuing digital certificates.
Supporting digital transformation:
Those licenses are provided according to the authority efforts to achieve the following:
Raising confidence in digital treatments
Improving organizational environment of the digital authentication sector.
Reinforcing digital services contribution in the national economy, according to the vision of the KSA 2030.
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